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Professor
Michelle Alexopoulos
Department of Economics phone: (416)
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Research on Growth &
Technological Change
Publications
- Management Matters with T. Tombe supplemental materials available here forthcoming Journal of Monetary Economics
- The Effects of Computer Technologies on the Canadian Economy: Evidence from New Direct Measures with J. Cohen International Productivity Monitor (23) Spring 2012, 17-30
- Read All about It!! What Happens Following a Technology Shock?, American Economic Review 101 (2011), 1144-79. Download Data Set
Working paper version: Read All About it!! What happens following a technology shock?, Working Papers tecipa-391, University of Toronto, Department of Economics.
- Volumes of evidence: examining technical change in the last century through a new lens, with J. Cohen, Canadian Journal of Economics, vol. 44 (2011), 413-450.
- Measuring our ignorance, one book at a time: New indicators of technological change, 1909-1949, with J. Cohen Journal of Monetary Economics 56(4) (2009), 450-470.
working paper version found here. Formerly titled “Believe it or Not!! The 1930s was a technologically progressive decade”
- Extra! Extra! Some positive technology shocks are expansionary!, Economics Letters 101 (2008), 153-156.
- Growth and unemployment in a shirking efficiency wage model, Canadian Journal of Economics (2003), 728-746.
Current
Working Papers and Work in Progress
- The Media is the Measure: Technical change and employment, 1909-49, with J. Cohen Working Papers tecipa-351, University of Toronto, Department of Economics.
- The Power of Print
- Measuring General Purpose technologies, with J. Cohen
- Volumes of Evidence Canadian Edition, with J. Cohen
- A new look at the Second Industrial Revolution, with J. Cohen
- One Shock, Two Shocks, Three Shocks, Four …
Downloadable Presentations
OCLC lecture: The Medium is the Measure: Library Collections as Indicators of Economic Changes (audio and slides available here)
Presentation to the National
Academies of Science, Third Meeting of the Panel on Developing STI Indicators
for the Future presentation slides available here